Will County Coroner Patrick K. O’Neil told the paper that most toxicological testing laboratories are unable to detect W-18, which leaves its impact in overdoses unknown. However, the Will County lab is able to.
“W-18 is not as prevalent, but law enforcement officials say it is more potent and even more deadly than fentanyl,” the report said.

DuPage County Coroner Richard A. Jorgensen told the Tribune that his office has not yet seen W-18 in the area, but said there has been a lot of “designer fentanyls.”

“In 2015, we had eight deaths (due to) pure fentanyl, and this year we probably are already at 17 or 18 deaths,” Jorgensen told the Tribune. “So we’ve at least doubled (that) death rate.”

O’Neil and Jorgensen told the Tribune they are not familiar enough with W-18 to offer professional opinions.
W-18 was developed in 1984 by Canadian researchers, but was never mass-produced and was, for the most part, forgotten.

Everything We Know So Far About W-18, the Drug That’s 10,000 Times More Powerful Than Morphine

Fake Oxy pills, pictured above, have led to hundreds of deaths in the past year in Alberta. Photo via Twitter

This article originally appeared on VICE Canada.

Health Canada has identified through scientific analysis that some pills being sold in Calgary as fentanyl—the typically blue-green, round fake OxyContin pills—actually contained a drug 100 times more potent than fentanyl. The discovery of this drug, W-18, which is being reported as a synthetic opioid with no known clinical use, could mean an even greater risk of overdose in Calgary for those taking pills marketed as fentanyl or fake OxyContin. This is the first time that W-18 has been confirmed to exist in Calgary.

W-18 is a novel psychoactive substance that comes in powder form, and likely derives from Chinese labs where little-known drugs and analogues of known drugs are mass-produced and sold online. It is 10,000 times more powerful than morphine and 100 times more powerful than fentanyl, greatly increasing the likelihood of overdose and death. When it comes to fentanyl, in 2015 alone, there were 213 overdose deaths in the province, according to Alberta Health, and about 21,000 of the round, blue-green pills were seized in Alberta.

The pills found to contain W-18 came from a search warrant in Calgary in August 2015 that yielded 110 tablets, which were then sent off for analysis to Health Canada. Results were returned to Calgary Police Service in mid-December.

“We believe W-18 would be coming from China,” Martin Schiavetta, a staff sergeant with the Calgary Police Service Drug Unit, told VICE. “Certainly organized crime is behind the importation of fentanyl, and I would make the connection that W-18 would be the same.”

Schiavetta said that while they were only given analysis showing a positive test for W-18 for three of the pills from the August search warrant, it is quite possible that more of the pills they seized also contained it. He also mentioned that the test for determining the presence of W-18 is extremely difficult.

Additionally, since pills like those containing fentanyl or W-18, also known as “beans” or “shady 80s” among users and dealers, are made in homemade labs (not by pharmaceutical companies), the actual amounts of drugs within the tablets can vary.

You can think of this issue with pressing pills as you would making a batch of chocolate chip cookies: The same number of chocolate chips aren’t going to make their way into each individual cookie. “The problem with how fentanyl pills are manufactured is that there’s no consistency. So one tablet may have one milligram of fentanyl, and then the next tablet made in the same batch could have three [milligrams].”

Fentanyl and its analogues are regulated under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act in Canada. And in October 2015, fentanyl and its analogues also began to be regulated in China. However, W-18 is not an analogue of fentanyl, and as such, it’s not regulated under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act in Canada.

“It comes down to availability, accessibility… Here’s a drug that’s 100 times more powerful than fentanyl, but [dealers] really have no idea what they’re dealing with,” Schiavetta told VICE. “I don’t think the criminal element has that much foresight [to think about killing off customer base]; I think it’s about making money here and now, and they have no regard for the customers who they’re selling the drugs to.”

In 2014, 120 people died in Alberta due to fentanyl. In 2015, when that fatality number nearly doubled, Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team deemed fentanyl the “biggest drug trend” of the year.

“This unprecedented action was taken in response to reports of individuals from Chicago offering gifts to potential voters in exchange for a vote for Kate Cloonen, Hillary Clinton and others,” Boyd said in the news release. “Our office takes seriously the obligation to protect the rights of citizens to vote for the candidate of their choice, and to do so without undue influence from special interest groups.

Democrat Kate Cloonen and union thugs are accused of trying to buy votes.

“The investigation will also focus on the authenticity of vote by mail requests. Several applications have been filed with the election authority that appear to be fraudulently executed.”

More amazingly, the voters who were bribed were actually being transported by van to the county clerk’s office to vote early.

Nobody has caught the perpetrators yet, but it’s pretty clear who is responsible:

Union thugs and their Democratic masters are working for Democrat Kate Cloonen in a highly contested race against local Republican attorney Lindsay Parkhurst.

“These reports of voter fraud in Kankakee are incredibly disturbing,” Pankhurst said. “Fair and honest elections are the bedrock of our democracy. It is truly deplorable when people try to corrupt our system in this manner.”

Of course Cloonen would not comment, but two union thugs would. Rather than deny the accusations, they tried to claim that voter disenfranchisement from Republicans is common, so –I guess– this makes their voter fraud okay?

“We know many legally registered voters have been turned away from voting over the last few days,” union reps Gary Ciaccio and Mike Smith said. “Since early voting for the 2016 General Election began just a few short days ago, there have been numerous reports and eyewitness accounts of harassment and intimidation by local government officials of residents trying to participate in the democratic process of voting.”

It is a felony to try to coerce or influence a voter and Boyd, a Republican, who lost his bid this year to become a judge, said that the clerk’s office will not being handing out “I voted” stickers in an effort to stem any vote-buying efforts.

Just another day in corrupt Illinois.

IL GOP SETS UP HOTLINE FOLLOWING ALLEGATIONS OF VOTER FRAUD IN KANKAKEE CO

KANKAKEE COUNTY – In a rural county south of Chicago, voter fraud reports were filed with theKankakee CountyClerk’s office, stemming from allegations that individuals were offering bribes for votes.

Illinois Republican Party State ChairmanTim Schneiderheld a press conference Wednesday announcing the availability of a voter fraud hotline.

“Yesterday, the Kankakee County State’s attorney announced an unprecedented investigation into voter fraud following reports of individuals from Chicago offering gifts in exchange for votes for Rep.Kate CloonenandHillary Clinton,” Schneider said in a statement.

Several applications filed with the election authority appear to be fraudulently executed.

Kate Cloonen andMike Madigan’s political team have lashed out at the Republican Party and personally attacked the State’s Attorney himself in order to distract from the allegations that Democratic candidates are benefiting from election fraud.

More to come …Contact IL GOP via phone at 312-201-9000 or info@ilgop.org

Hacked e-mails show Hillary Clinton’s campaign feared that remarks she made during paid speeches to Wall Street firms behind closed doors would become public and used against her by political opponents.

Clinton campaign research director Tony Carrk was so worried about the political impact if the speeches ever came out that he sent campaign chairman John Podesta and other aides possible damaging headlines.

“CLINTON ADMITS SHE IS OUT OF TOUCH,” “CLINTON SAYS YOU NEED TO HAVE A PRIVATE AND PUBLIC POSITION ON POLICY,” and “CLINTON REMARKS ARE PRO KEYSTONE AND PRO TRADE,” he wrote in a January 2016 e-mail.

Clinton called for ‘open trade and open borders’ in private, paid speeches
Hillary Clinton told bankers behind closed doors that she favored “open trade and open borders” and said Wall Street executives were best-positioned to help reform the U.S. financial sector, according to transcripts of her private, paid speeches leaked Friday.

One excerpt put Clinton squarely in the free-trade camp, a position she has retreated on significantly during the 2016 election. In a talk to a Brazilian bank in 2013, she said her “dream” is “a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders” and asked her audience to think of what doubling American trade with Latin America “would mean for everybody in this room.”

“My father loved to complain about big business and big government, but we had a solid middle class upbringing. We had good public schools. We had accessible health care. We had our little, you know, one-family house that, you know, he saved up his money, didn’t believe in mortgages. So I lived that,” she said in the speech. “And now, obviously, I’m kind of far removed because the life I’ve lived and the economic, you know, fortunes that my husband and I now enjoy, but I haven’t forgotten it.”

GOPUSA Editor’s Note: Scroll down in the Politico story for a list of 8 “e-mail exchanges that shed light on the methods and mindset of Clinton’s allies in Brooklyn and Washington.”